financial-regulators
Original: financial-regulators on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top): THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: POLICIES THAT WOULD PROBABLY WORK, BUT WHICH ARE TOO STUPID TO ACTUALLY BE IMPLEMENTED.
Man in suit (speech): Instead of financial regulation, we'll just put old ladies with spraybottles in all banks. Any time they see someone engaging in financial misconduct, they spray them and shout "BAD! BAD!"
[An old lady stands to the right, grinning and holding up a spray bottle, ready to spray.]
Votey:
Old lady (speech): Bad banker! No! No complex financial derivatives!
[Close-up of the grimacing old lady's face.]
Man in suit (speech): Instead of financial regulation, we'll just put old ladies with spraybottles in all banks. Any time they see someone engaging in financial misconduct, they spray them and shout "BAD! BAD!"
[An old lady stands to the right, grinning and holding up a spray bottle, ready to spray.]
Votey:
Old lady (speech): Bad banker! No! No complex financial derivatives!
[Close-up of the grimacing old lady's face.]
Alt text
Main panel: A top caption reads "THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: POLICIES THAT WOULD PROBABLY WORK, BUT WHICH ARE TOO STUPID TO ACTUALLY BE IMPLEMENTED." A man in a dark suit and red tie explains in a speech bubble: "Instead of financial regulation, we'll just put old ladies with spraybottles in all banks. Any time they see someone engaging in financial misconduct, they spray them and shout 'BAD! BAD!'" To his right, a grinning gray-haired old lady in a pink-trimmed red blazer holds up a spray bottle, poised to spray.
Votey: A close-up of the same old lady's grimacing, intense face as she shouts "Bad banker! No! No complex financial derivatives!"
Votey: A close-up of the same old lady's grimacing, intense face as she shouts "Bad banker! No! No complex financial derivatives!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.